During Golden Week. Reservation seat only reserve for Japanese. 1 week earlier than any foreigners from oversea.
Your chances are only unreserved seat coach. Get ready standing from Tokyo > Osaka > Tokyo
The best of Using JR Rail Pass on Unreserved Seat Coach was you can keep on trying to boarding into the train.
Example:

08:00 Hikari Class
Too many people in Unreserved seat.
Then you can try bounce into the next
08:20 Hikari Class
too Many People again
Then 8:40
the list keep on going.
Find a coach which you think lesser people which is nearly impossible on Golden Week.......

Just pray to god got people in front of you getting down at Shizuoka Station and Nagoya Station. So you got chances to takeover the seat.
to the worst 2 and half hour standing all the way to Osaka Station. 

Time to do some exercise. 
My Best Advise for you still...forget about City Hopping. Just Focus at Tokyo Only.
Your Visiting Japan timing are totally most worst. The Middle of Golden week.  Most Chaos Most Expensive time.....

Nothing special about the KitKat boutique. To me it looks like a small stall/koisk inside the department stalls.. HAHAHA

Few of friends already asked me to buy them japanese kitkat that's how i encountered the kitkat boutique lol
But who knows, I might find something interesting there

hello everyone! i have a question to ask on train routes using seishun 18 kippu. i am flying in march 2016.

i am planning my itinerary from osaka to fukuoka. i am using hyperdia to plan. for some reason when i tried to search for trains from yamaguchi to fukuoka, it said no results. i tried from hiroshima to fukuoka also didn't yield result.

is this normal? or does that mean i have to find other places to drop by before going to fukuoka?

ur help/advise is highly appreciated.

my current planning is like this:

osaka (after airport) > okayama (one night) > fukuyama (> 3 hours) > hiroshima (3 nights) > yamaguchi (< 5 hours) > fukuoka (2 nights) >  kyoto > osaka

My original plan was:

26 to 29 April Tokyo
29 to 30 April - Nagoya
30 April to 1 May - Hiroshima
1 to 3 May - Osaka
3 to 5 May - Tokyo
If that is too difficult and risky, I may change to Plan B:

26 to 30 - Tokyo (Disneyland)
30 April to 3 May - Osaka
3 - 5 May - Tokyo

Whats your thoughts?

Is it possible to purchase Tokyo Osaka return Shinkansen ticket before arriving to Japan? If yes, how?

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Few of friends already asked me to buy them japanese kitkat that's how i encountered the kitkat boutique lol
But who knows, I might find something interesting there

That so called boutilque is just a small section at the seiyun or something dept store. There will be a small history section & those specilized kitkats that u can actually get elsewhere too at much cheaper price.

That so called boutilque is just a small section at the seiyun or something dept store. There will be a small history section & those specilized kitkats that u can actually get elsewhere too at much cheaper price.

Goto those pharmacies or even opposite side of the dept store  u will see 2 gigantic pharmacies as below photo. Shop there & u might able to get 190 to 200yen kit kat. Shop on the left cheaper..



BTW, those pharmacies are available everywhere in Japan and the above two are the most common & probably largest of all

This boutique was for season limited edition kitkat or Premium fav kit kat. If buy those common fav at this boutique really cut throat price.
If want hunt normal kitkat such as green tea, strawberry , etc common stuff then canfind at Pharmacy or Tokyo Station.

hello everyone! i have a question to ask on train routes using seishun 18 kippu. i am flying in march 2016.

i am planning my itinerary from osaka to fukuoka. i am using hyperdia to plan. for some reason when i tried to search for trains from yamaguchi to fukuoka, it said no results. i tried from hiroshima to fukuoka also didn't yield result.

is this normal? or does that mean i have to find other places to drop by before going to fukuoka?

ur help/advise is highly appreciated.

my current planning is like this:

osaka (after airport) > okayama (one night) > fukuyama (> 3 hours) > hiroshima (3 nights) > yamaguchi (< 5 hours) > fukuoka (2 nights) >  kyoto > osaka

I m renting this unit from Midvalley/KLIA ... for my jp trip in March... Unlimited Data usage in JP.
http://visondata.com.my/plans/japan

Is there any good restaurant recommended for Omakase kaiseki meal in Kyoto and Osaka

Is there any good restaurant recommended for Omakase kaiseki meal in Kyoto and Osaka similar to those restaurant in Tsukiji, Tokyo?

Anywhere around Nishiki market since it's considered like a fresh market? Friend recommended Giro Giro Hitoshina but I see it's more like those modern type, prefer the old traditional sushi type like the famous one in Tsukiji

Any advice is much appreciated, especially from bro Regent, Thanks. 

ADDED : Prefer reasonable price one too like in Tsukiji level, not those michelin star price level

Hi,
I am deciding between staying in Untapped Hostel 1 to 2 mins from Kitajuhachijo Station and Apartment 5 mins from Minamihiragashi Station(cheaper by half the price compared to Untapped Hostel).

Would like to know whether lugging luggage for extra few mins would make a difference in Feb snow as we will be wearing normal sports shoes?

Thanks.

Sport shoes won't works on Snow. If you wear sport shoes get ready for potong kaki. Sure get Frost Bite.
Sapporo snow must wear Boots higher than your leg ankle to prevent snow goes into your toe.

See how deep was the snow. If wear Sport shoes sure ''Potong Kaki''